[bookport] Re: Speech menu
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:05:02 -0400
There's one problem with allowing casual access to all of the speech
settings and that is that if improperly combined, some settings can render a
synthesizer useless. One of those that can do this, I think, is "head size,"
so I wouldn't necessarily want to see that available. There's a warning in
the DECtalk technical manual about this problem of improper combinations of
the various options.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Hartness" <hartness@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 9:50 AM
Subject: [bookport] Speech menu
Hi Jeremiah and list,
I really like your idea Jeremiah of a speech menu that would open up more of
the other voice options to us. It would be fine even to add this to the
transfer tool so that it wouldn't use up precious on-board resources of the
Bookport.
Again, special thanks goes to Larry and everyone at APH for creating such a
useful tool and for also listening to user feedback to guide it's ongoing
development and refinement. Hard to imagine life before Bookport and that
was just less than a year ago for me.
Good day to all,
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremiah Z. Rogers" <jzr@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bookport@Freelists. Org" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: [bookport] An Alternative to a Pronunciation Dictionary
> Hi fellow book porters. I've watched, with great interest, the different
> ideas about the features and functions you'd like to see added to the Book
> Port. Many of you have suggested means to alter what you've called
> pronunciation, but in your examples, you've almost unanimously cited
> instances where the doubletalk speech used the wrong expansion of an
> abbreviation: drive instead of doctor, saint instead of street, etc. I've
> suggested, in previous posts, that APH allow Book Port users more access
to
> the finer features of the Doubletalk synthesizers: control of intonation,
> pause between words, level of enunciation, tone control, etc. All of these
> features are available in other devices which utilize Doubletalk speech,
and
> as such should be technically available in the hardware presently on-board
> your Book Ports. How does this tie into pronunciation of abbreviations? I
> believe that there is a means of instructing Doubletalk to simply announce
> abbreviations rather than try to parse them. Thus it'd say DR for doctor,
ST
> for street or saint, etc. This bit of modification should prove much more
> efficient in terms of space utilization, as well as in meeting the needs
of
> most users. Were APH to turn its users loose with complete control over
all
> of Doubletalk's wide array of configurable features as I've previously
> requested, this feature could simply be one of them and could be part of a
> speech parameters submenu off the main menu perhaps. I'll be interested to
> read reaction from list members to these thoughts, as well as any thoughts
> which might be offered by APH staff on the list. Many thanks in advance.
> Jeremiah
>
>
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